Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHE connecticut SENATE on Tue oJbn, Dy
vote of % to 3, passed the Ten-Hour
law for women and children, already
passed by the House. 1t is the same as
the Massachusetts law. An amendment
exempting mercantile establishments was
rejected by IS to 5.
THE report of the Canadian Minister of
Customs shows that the fishery policy e.
ing pursued by the Dominion Government
toward the United States is proving dis
astrous to Canadian maritime trade.
CLAYTON MAYER, a convict in the Penn
burned buildings belonging to temper
ance leaders at Cochrantown, Pa, in 1888,
at the instigation of saloon men.
PINGREE & SMITHS shoe factory at De-
troit, the largest in Michigan, was totally
burned, with contents, on the 3)th. One
fireman was injured fatally. Loss, about
$500, 600.
Two Indian youths sailed on the 30th
from Philadelphia for London to act as
ushers at the American and Colonial eK-
hibition.
THE New York Sun states that James
G. Blaine has completed all his arrange
ments for European tour. Mr.. Blaine
will sail in June and remain abroad for
over year.
In the Haddock trial at Sioux City, Ia,
on the Both, Albert Koschniseki, the in
former, gave testimony detailing the pl OF
and murder of the temperance preacher.
Mr.. CHARLES DE LEssEPs, son of the
French engineer, arrived in New Orleans
| on the 29th from Panama. He is staying
at the home of some relatives, of whom
he has quite number in the city.
IT is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
about S12, 0O0, 600 in the public debt during
March. The receipts for the month to
| the 30th amounted to $50, 235, 203 and the ex-
penditures to s1S 1858, $50, including S. 49,
219 pension payments. The net gain of
receipts over expenditures is s14, S4S, 743
THE Congress of Churches and Chris
| tians" was in session at Chicago on the
30th. Its object was to annihilate secret
societies.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York sent
special message to the Legislature on the
30th on the subject of special legislati on.
The message is believed to be aimed at
the High License bill for New York and
Brooklyn, recently passed by the Assem-
bly,. 1t is now deemed certain that the
Governor will veto the bill should the
Senate pass it.
A REMARKABLE publication in made in
Belgium of what Bismarck is alleged to
have said recently, which, if true, dispels
all hope Alsace-Lorraine may have enter
tanned of neutrality in national or military
affairs
PENDING the selection and preparation
of permanent offices for the use of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, tenn
porary quarters have been secured with
the United States Geological Survey in
the Hood building.
THE President has turned over to the
Secretary of the Treasury an anonymous
letter and an inclosure of $500, which he
received from some person in Brooklyn,
N. Y. The writer says he owes this
amount to the Government for customs
duties.
BUFFALO BILL and his Wild West show
sailed for London on a chartered steamer
on the 31st.
plosion, three workingmen were fatally
scalded.
EARL CADoGAN, in the British House of
Lords on the 31st, introduced an Irish
Land Purchase bill.
THE National Builders Association
closed it's business at Chicago ON the 31st
and adjourned
COLONEL FLETCHER P. CUPPY, a lawy er
of Washington, D. c., died suddenly at
Hot Springs, Ark, on the 31st.
The heating OF the springs of the
Queens railway carriage necessitated a
full days delay in the British royal party
reaching Cannes, France.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has returned to
Washington from his Western trip.
TwENTY-THREE Indictments have, so far,
been returned by the Chicago special
grand jury investigating the alleged Cook
County frauds.
indorsing the position taken by Cardinal
Gibbons concerning the Knights of Labor
in America.
THE Pennsylvania House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 31st, passed a resolu-
ton protesting against Irish coercion and
expressing sympathy for Ireland.
CHARLES S. FAIRcHrLD, of New York,
was appointed Secretary of the Treasury
on the 1st, and Isaac II. Maynard assist
ant secretary.
HENRY M. STANLEY, the noted explorer,
writes from the interior of Africa, giving
a gloomy picture of the British status in
that country. He says that France,
Portugal and Germany have virtually
driven British trade and prestige away.
MEETINGS of Conservative and Liberal
Union memhers of the House of Commons
were held at London on the 31st, at which
it was determined to support the first
reading of the Irish Crimes bill.
THE Illinois Legislature has been off,
cially informed that the old Lincoln home
stead at Springfield, ILL.,, is not for sale.
u
ranged between the United States and
Mexico of great interest to Western mer-
chants.
THE sale of the Stewart statuary collec-
ton began in New York on the 3lst. The
bids for many choice works were so low
that they were rejected.
NEWS of the loss of the sealing steamer
Eagle, off the Newfoundland coast, is con-
firmed. It is considered certain that two
hundred and fifty seamen persisted.
THE Interstate Commerce Commiss sion
were sworn in at Washington on the 31st,
and organized by the election Of Judge
Cooley as chairman.
THE Pittsburgh (Pa.) police are en-
deavoring to learn of the whereabouts or
fate of bride Of three weeks, who has
been missing since the recent wreck at
Leetonia, o.
THERE was an army of dead head pas
sengers on the trains of the Pennsylvania
Conpany's lines on the 3lst The free
pass 'habit'' expired on that system at
midnight of that day.
THE Secretary of War, in order to re-
sponG to the request of Senator Cockrell,
chairman of the Senate select committee
to investigate the work of the depart
ments, has directed thorough investiga-
tion of the work of each bureau.
APENsIoN has been granted Peter Schu-
maker, formerly private in Company d,
Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, on the ground
of insanity. He gets S72 per month and
arrearages, aggregating Sl2y5O0, one of
the biggest pension payments ever made.
GENERAL P. NJ. B. YoUNG, of Georgia,
late the Consul-General at st. Petersburg,
is prominently mentioned for appointment
to the Austrian mission. General Young
himself states. however, that he.is not an
applicant for the position
WILLIAM RICE WARD, Missouri Mo-